On your last point, have a look at the Ikea sit-stand desks, I have one and it’s been working well for… ~10years? (& they’re cheaper than some others)
There’s no way I could concentrate / be on video calls and walk though, so I’m not sure about the treadmill…
Yeah, this.
It’s annoying as hell waiting 6 weeks for someone to come online with that last 3%.
Anything I find like that I seed as long as I can
Yeah, I agree… I want (and have) a NAS… and a separate Server.
The NAS is a NAS, not a TrueNas running my firewall, making coffee and keeping the house warm.
I also agree with OMV for someone starting out. I stuck with it until it got a little too containerised for my own liking and ended up building my NAS out of standard Arch because I now knew what features I wanted.
And my Proxmox is on a passively cooled small, silent, box in my home office. It will be upgraded to Incus on plain Arch one day because, again, I now know what features I want / don’t want.
For OP, try things, break things, try other things… just make sure you have backups 😉
Where’s Prosody in the list?
Interesting…
I have a Pi Zero2W with a (v1) respeaker hat and it’s pretty good, but doesn’t do well in a moderately noisy environment.
I was considering to get a voice preview instead… but… maybe I should consider the v2 respeaker instead? I already have the pi…
Arch is on 2026…
Ahhh 🙂
It’s from my job, every goddam thing has to have “cyber” in the name.
So I came up with this:
Yeah, we’re using Conversations and it’s fine for most things.
Will be self hosting prosidy “sooon”… and it’ll all be in-house.
On the plus side, if you can’t use your nose, you can’t smell, which means food tastes bland, which means (in my case), I lose a little weight…
I dunno what kind of cold is going around, but I was properly knocked out for ~4 days last week. Still not right now…
It wasn’t proper flu as I could still walk around, etc. And it wasn’t Covid (as far as I could tell) as that feels different.
Maybe all the stress of doing 12 hour days for the last 2 years caught up with me?
Anyway, back to work this week with all of last week’s backlog to catch up on… yay…
And since you’ve done that room…
This is good, if they:
Luckily I have a family member that fits one of those categories.
+1 for Hetzner
I’m using restic to encrypt my files (content + filenames)
That was all resolved.
I held off switching until very recently, but reading the githubs, etc. it’s all settled down now.
From memory it was just a bit of a nieve handover (ie “hidden” in the background, not out in public)
I’m from ye olden times, when everything was done in the yaml configuration files - so I prefer that approach.
The zones you create from the UI, work fine.
It’s just that the default “home” zone appears to have some quirks that can only be set from configuration.yaml
Yeah, the home zone is somewhat… different Zones
I do most of my config in yaml and all the zones are configured in a separate file, however, the home zone has (had? I’ve not checked in years) to be configured in configuration.yaml under the homeassistant: section.
You should be able to do something like:
homeassistant:
latitude: 12.3356
longitude: 1.23456
radius: 50
If you’re configuring zones from the UI, I think editing the file should still work.
I have multiple zones: home and almost-home (same center coordinates, just larger diameter)
This allows the house to “get ready” before someone is actually home, ie trigger lights to come on earlier.
It also helps with random GPS jumps.
Then, when the wifi connection is slow (maybe low phone battery) and people are literally outside the door, there’s no awkward pauses before someone actually “arrives”.
I also have zones for our work places, intending to be used as a double-check, ie not-home isn’t usually good enough, I want the house to know we’re all at work and then the internal house cameras come on, etc.
I also have a “visitors” flag, so that if friends / family are in and we leave, then the TV and lights don’t turn off and they’re not attacked by the laser robots…
Also, (from memory) the person entity can be a combo of GPS and ping sensors to ensure it’s a correct reading
With… or without their knowledge? 😉
But yeah, there’s so many wifis around me, I could probably load balance across them all…
Last week was my first full week back at work after recovering from this weird cold / flue that’s going around.
You know… after almost 30 years working for the same company (in different roles), I’m not sure I want to stay there any more.
No similar jobs nearby - or they’re paying 50% less… but… I’m just not feeling like dealing with the daily crap anymore.
It’s a bit unsettling…